From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Mar 22 13:22:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8BDC15282 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 13:22:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA24344; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:22:22 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.32.19990322141525.00a82b00@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.32 (Beta) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:19:27 -0700 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Netscape browser Cc: "Jasper O'Malley" , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <43527.922136741@zippy.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan: You're correct that it is far too late to undo the damage to the platform that has been caused by emulating another more popular one -- a strategy that IBM showed to be almost suicidal. However, FreeBSD may be able to recoup some native application support by creating an emulator for Linux. This is what we should do next. Otherwise, we'll have NOT native application support now or in the foreseeable future. We'll have made it such a bad business proposition to do a natively compiled app that it just won't happen. --Brett At 01:05 PM 3/22/99 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >Given that Linux emulation will never be removed from FreeBSD and that >it's not even a reasonable point of argument (too many people use it >to remove it), I guess I'm somewhat puzzled as to what this thread >hopes to achieve. One might just as well shake ones fist at the wind >and demand that it stop blowing. > >- Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message